Whenever it’s one time or regularly.
Also, if you do, how did you start?
Yeah lots, with the local food bank or the universalist Unitarian church, I’m an atheist but UU churches are about service not dogma I’ve heard the word “god” maybe 3 times this year and I go every week and volunteer regularly, it’s been great to join an organization that’s already set up to help build community that doesn’t care what you believe in.
I wanted to get up close to wild animals, so now I volunteer at the wildlife rescue. Hard work sometimes, but overall very rewarding and a lot of fun.
Our town twinning comittee did a St. Nicolas trip to our twinned city in the UK. Some years ago, the old St. Nicolas retired, and the comittee leader (a friend of ours) was desperately looking for a new one. She even asked her husband if he would glue a beard to his face (an idea which he was absolutely not keen of!). Then, one day we met in the city, and suddenly while we were chatting, she exclaimed “You have a beard!”
Indeed, I have a beard, and i have it way longer than we know each other, but that was beside the point. It is broad, long, and white. And I speak English rather fluently (it is not my native tongue), putting me into a perfect spot for this job.
And so I was volunteered…
I used to volunteer at libraries to teach elderly people digital literacy, how to use phones and computers to complete tasks they need etc and grow comfortable with their devices.
Unfortunately I couldn’t continue due to instability taking over my life. I’d like to do it again someday but I’m currently in too much need.
Yep, about evey month or so at a local children’s museum. I got a email at work decided to give it a try thinking maybe I’d meet a hot single mom or something.
But I actually do like helping the kids with their craft projects. It’s clear that someone of them don’t get the opportunity to really make a mess and build random stuff, I love be there to make that happen
I write wikipedia pages, do OpenStreetMap editing and occasionally I go leafleting for my political party of choice
Yes. I volunteered for a couple months in Ukraine in a dog shelter and the volunteer kitchen in Lviv. I also volunteer to organize demonstrations in my city and occasionally I edit OpenStreetMap.
I do. Counting ballets. They needed ppl so i signed up
Le Sacre du Printemps is my personal favourite.
I think i miss spelled something wrong. I meant i count at elections the votes
Ballots is what you meant. Ballet is a type of dancing.
Keep it up, and Mister Spelled is gonna come after you.
I help frogs and toads cross the road during mating season and count them.
FOSS and blood.
I used to donate blood, but sadly a medication I take prevents me from doing so anymore. One time I even donated two units since they were particularly low on that type. You have my respect.
I also help do compatibility testing for an emulator, though life has kept me from doing that recently.
Yeah at the pet shelter here. Started coz i wanted to be around animals but now id feel guilty if i wanted to leave, they are so under staffed and under supported
where i live pet shelters don’t want people, they just want money. it sucks.
Not really. I have always felt inches away from being a charity case and we have done a rediculous level of personal austerity. My father in law even said we were to cautious but our lives have proved again and again that is not so. I mean I have in the past but most of what I do is opportunity driven. I used to have a do I could walk off leash so I would carry a poop grabber and bucket and I would pick up other garbage along the way. My neighbors and I grab each others mail. Put carts away that are carelessly left in the grocery lot. It blows my mind sometimes now only the littel things people don’t do but the little bad things they do and both would not inconvenience them much at all. Someone who goes and serves food in a soup kitchen every week but won’t use their turn signal is like. what. I sorta get annoyed with charity. Like it should not be necessary. We should be collecting taxes and employing people and fixing most things on a societal level. So like I want to live in a progressive social democracy where the average person is low enough stress that they treat themselves and their fellow citizens and environment with respect and will take some marginal effort to fix things spur of the moment that crop up.
Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world, people are often hypocrites, or try to offset the bad things they do with some surface level good, or just don’t care. But even then, I feel like anything that makes it just a little less cruel is a good thing, so thank you for doing what you can.
oh yeah. im sorry if I sounded like I was crapping on volunteering. As I said I have done some and I realize there is niche things that I don’t expect society to cover. Like I volunteered for many bike related things. Stuff like soup kitches and nature cleanups its like. You know we should collect taxes and these should be paid jobs. Like how is it ok this is necessary like that.
Yes. I contribute to Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
I wanted to contribute to the online information sources that I always rely on, so I started activities on these two sites.
Offline, I work on organizing 78rpm-record collections left by local collectors.
I like music from before the LP era, and I learned about this activity through local media and decided to participate in the organizing work.
Not unless unauthorized trail maintenance counts.
I mean if it’s for the greater good… Have you thought about authorized trail maintenance?
I wish I could more, but I donate frequently. If I can’t give my time, I’ll give my money (to political campaigns, NPOs, etc.).
I used to volunteer in uni as part of the classes. I taught children creative writing, mostly. It was very fulfilling seeing children of all ages develop their own voices.
